The Secret Life of Teen Services

Coal City Public Library District aka the CCPLD. The CCPLD is located in Coal City, Illinois.

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True Story.

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The first Pinter-TEST! Come make one of your own on September 17th, after school!

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Far From You by Tess Sharpe Giveaway!

Hey y’all, I’m giving away two signed copies of FAR FROM YOU (with a few extras thrown in!). One copy will have my notes and thoughts about the book scribbled in the margins, and the second copy will contain a handwritten short story about what happens to the characters after FAR FROM YOU ends.

To enter, all you have to do is reblog this post, or tweet a link to the giveaway with the hashtag #farfromyou. This is an international Giveaway and it ends on Monday, April 21st and the winners will be announced on the 22nd! 

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It’s still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

Neil Gaiman (via ala-con)

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Happy National Library Week!

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Professional Library Literature Library Literature Worth Reading

Please click, I couldn't even get through the first panel without lol'ing!

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New display going up - if you like a specific TV show, check out a similar YA book! 

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Happy National Library Workers Day to all my fellow library workers!

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And don’t let jerks like Moe get you down either.

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Haters gonna hate.

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Happy Women’s History Month: Here are some great YA reads about strong feisty female characters!

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# park and recreation

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"Jennifer Lawrence decided to pursue an acting career after a boy from Kentucky made it big in Hollywood. That boy was Josh Hutcherson."

Fate.

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I’m not sorry

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You shouldn’t be

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Now THAT is genuis.

*applause*

Sherlock and Hobbit fans will begin laughing hysterically right about….now.

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#169 Winner

Kid: I’m returning my stuff.

Me: Ok. beep.

Kid: Was that on time?

Me: Yes.

Kid (fist bumps me): SCORE!!!

Me: beep, beep, beep

Kid: How about the other stuff?

Me: It was all on time. No fines.

Kid (throws his head back and says in style of Charlie Sheen): WINNING!!!

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If you loved:

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Giver by Lois Lowery

Maybe you should try one of these!

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Matched by Ally Condie

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

The Host by Stephanie Meyer

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Legend by Marie Lu

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Feed by M. T. Anderson

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Gone by Michael Grant

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The City of Ember by Jeannie DuPrau

For the Win by Cory Doctorow

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Heir Apparent by Vivan Vande Velde

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama

X-Men: Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont and John Byrne

The Handmaid’s Tale by Magaret Atwood

Fahrenheit 451  by Ray Bradbury

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Add the books We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Anthem by Ayn Rand. They’re actually pretty good.

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MAZE RUNNER TRAILER....OMG!!!!